Born in New Orleans, Scott aTunde Adjuah began his musical tutelage with his uncle, legendary sax man and jazz innovator Donald Harrison Jr. '81. He has released seven critically acclaimed studio recordings and two live albums, and is known for developing the harmonic convention labeled the "forecasting cell" and for his use of an unvoiced tone in his playing, emphasizing breath over vibration at the mouthpiece—often referred to as the “whisper technique.” With Stretch Music, Scott aTunde Adjuah explores a jazz-rooted yet genre-blind musical form, stretching the rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic conventions of jazz to encompass as many other musical forms, languages, and cultures as possible. The album, some of which was recorded in Berklee's new Shames Family Scoring Stage earlier this year, features four new instruments designed exclusively for the group—three horns (the siren, sirenette, and reverse flugel) and the pan-African drum kit—as well as traditional jazz instrumentation and Eastern and electronic instruments.